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WALKER, Anthony. Eurhka, Eurhka. The Virtuous Woman found, her Loss Bewailed, and character exemplified in a Sermon Preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678. At the Funeral of that most Excellent Lady the Right Honourable, and eminently Religious and Charitable Mary, Countess Dowager of Warwick, and most Illustrious Pattern of Sincere Piety, and Solid Goodness this Age hath produced. With so Large Additions as may be stiled the Life of that Noble Lady. To which are Annexed some of her Ladyships Pious and Useful Meditations. London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1678.
WALKER, Anthony. Eurhka, Eurhka. The Virtuous Woman found, her Loss Bewailed, and character exemplified in a Sermon Preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678. At the Funeral of that most Excellent Lady the Right Honourable, and eminently Religious and Charitable Mary, Countess Dowager of Warwick, and most Illustrious Pattern of Sincere Piety, and Solid Goodness this Age hath produced. With so Large Additions as may be stiled the Life of that Noble Lady. To which are Annexed some of her Ladyships Pious and Useful Meditations. London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1678.

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WALKER, Anthony. Eurhka, Eurhka. The Virtuous Woman found, her Loss Bewailed, and character exemplified in a Sermon Preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678. At the Funeral of that most Excellent Lady the Right Honourable, and eminently Religious and Charitable Mary, Countess Dowager of Warwick, and most Illustrious Pattern of Sincere Piety, and Solid Goodness this Age hath produced. With so Large Additions as may be stiled the Life of that Noble Lady. To which are Annexed some of her Ladyships Pious and Useful Meditations. London: printed for Nathanael Ranew, 1678.

2 parts in one volume. 8o (174 x 110 mm). Ruled in red. 11 pages of bookseller's advertisements at end (lacks the engraved portrait frontispiece, A4 with internal tear and minor loss of text, some browning and staining). Contemporary English red goatskin, tooled with a broken panel design around a central lozenge on a background of leafy sprigs, flowers, circles, dots and grapes (light wear and repairs to spine ends and corners).

FIRST EDITION, of this interesting biography of this 17th-century English "Noble Lady," who refused to obey to an arranged marriage and married Charles Rich, second son of the Earl of Warwick, a match her father strongly disapproved of. The second part of this volume, with its own title-page, contains her "Occasional Meditations upon Sundry Subjects," a series of thirteen short essays with titles as, "Upon feeding the poor at the gate with some broken meat left at a feast," "Of my gardeners chusing fine young thriving stocks to graft on, and rejecting old and withered ones," "Upon looking out of my window at Chelsey upon the Thames," etc. This volume is dedicated to the scientist Robert Boyle, and his sister and bound in a fine contemporary binding. Wing W-301.